Gaines County, once one of the top oil producing counties in the State of Texas, ranked eighth among counties within the Permian Basin region for oil production in the 2014 calendar year, according to an area report.

A 23-year-old Seminole man who was recently arrested in connection with
an online solicitation of a minor charge out of Midland, was taken into
custody by law enforcement officials on federal charges Tuesday.

The steep decline in the price of a barrel of oil in the last quarter of
the 2014 calendar year has resulted in a similar decline in mineral
values for most of Gaines County's taxing entities, according to a
release of 2015 certified values by the Gaines County Appraisal District
on Monday.

Having recently secured a minimum $2 million grant toward the
construction of a new Civic Center for the city, the Seminole City
Council took an important early step and approved an architectural firm
for the project.

Season tickets will go on sale Monday morning for the upcoming 2015
Seminole Indian Football season, according to officials with the SISD
Athletic Dept. through a press release issued this week to the Seminole
Sentinel.